Hello Y'All,
This week
was insane! It went by super fast. On Wednesday Elder Larsen and I drove down
to the mission office for a trainer follow-up meeting where we were basically involved in some training meetings and had the opportunity talk about how things are going. Everything with training is
going super well! I love Elder Larsen. Ha Ha. He's such a goof ball and I know
he was supposed to be my companion because he's the only Elder who can handle
my million-miles-an-hour personality.
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| Atlanta, Georgia Temple |
On
Thursday I got to go down to the temple! I was SO excited because I haven't
been there since November, but then OF COURSE on the way down there, everything
that could've gone wrong, actually went wrong! The Elder who was driving us
ended up rear-ending another car and this took 30 minutes to figure out. So,
that made us arrive in Atlanta just in time for the morning traffic. Uggg! I woke up at 4:45 (am!) to leave by 5:15 and
by the time we got to the temple it was 9:15. The session started at 9:00. So, we just barely missed it! At first I was
really mad, but instead of doing a session we got to do some sealings. It was
my first time ever doing sealings and it was actually really cool! While we
were there, I also got to see a ton of my mission friends so it was awesome.
Hopefully I can go back soon!
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| Elder Roderick with Elder "Croft" at the Atlanta Temple |
Oh, man!
The work this week was crazy. Ha ha! We've been working with Cassandra, who I’ve
told you about for the past few weeks. Her situation is nuts. So, she has been
living in Cornelia with her sisters and she's eating up the gospel. She knows
it's true and wants to be baptized so badly. The entire time we’ve been
teaching Cassandra her plan has been to move to North Carolina this week. So,
we've basically been preparing her for other missionaries. But, as her time to
leave arrived, she decided that she’d rather stay in Cornelia and start a life
here because she has a lot more opportunities here than in North Carolina. On Friday we went with
an older member couple, the Rylees, to meet with her and make a game plan of
how she could stay here in Georgia. Amazingly, without us even asking, the
Rylees volunteered to let Cassandra stay in their home. But, the only problem
is it would have to be AFTER baptism because I guess that's what the Church
prefers. So, all Cassandra has to do is stay in her sister's house for a
couple more weeks until her baptism. But, for a number of reasons, this isn't an option.
The
next day, Saturday, we got a text from her. She said that she had a bus ticket for North Carolina on Tuesday (tomorrow). Elder Larsen and I were biking that day and we were
about 20 minutes away when we got the text so we decided to bike over there and
talk to her about it. Well, on the way, my infinite intelligence led me astray and I took a
horrible wrong turn. After 30 minutes of biking we ended up in the opposite direction - near the freeway! We tried taking all these
side streets and kept ending up back at the freeway. I was so
frustrated! At one point, we saw a sign that said, "Cornelia: 1/2
mile." So, I thought, "Forget it! We're going!" So,
low and behold, two elders started biking in the 3 foot-tall grass on the
side of the freeway for 15 minutes until we finally got off the exit. Ya,
guys. I know that's illegal. (I learned this the next day at church when at
least 5 members who saw us, had to comment about it. Thank you very much!. $%&*$(#) Anyway,
we finally got to Cassandra's and she told us that she
There
are a million other things that happened this week, but I think
that's good for now. Thank you guys for your endless support I couldn't be here
without you! I love y'all so much!!! Talk to you soon!
Elder Roddy
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